Battle for Azeroth Skinning Guide

This guide provides an overview of the additions and changes to Skinning in World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth.

Learning BfA Skinning

The new BfA Skinning skill is named differently for the two factions, but the name is the only difference between them.

[Kul Tiran Skinning] is the Alliance version and [Zandalari Skinning] is the Horde version.

Skinning Trainers:

• Horde: You can find Rana the Cutta in Dazar'alor at the Terrace of Crafters.
• Alliance: Camilla Darksky is in Boralus at the Tradewinds Market.

You can walk up to a guard in Dazar'alor or Boralus then ask where the Skinning trainer is. Asking the guard will place a red marker on your map at the trainer's location.

Leveling Skinning

Professions skills are split between expansions now, you'll have a separate skill bar for each expansion. There are still 950 profession levels in total, just that there is no one single progress bar with 1 to 950 for it anymore. Instead, there are 8 separate progress bars, one for each expansion.

The new Battle for Azeroth Skinning has a maximum of 150 skill points. You can level the Battle for Azeroth progress bar without leveling any of the previous expansions tiers, you don't have to level Skinning by killing lower level beasts, you can start in Zandalar or Kul Tiras.

Check out my BfA Skinning leveling guide, if you are looking the best zones to quickly level up Skinning.

New Materials

• Coarse Leather
• Shimmerscale
• Blood-Stained Bone
• Calcified Bone
• Mistscale
• Tempest Hide

Skinning Ranks

Each type of gathering skill has three ranks, and each rank allows you to gather that specific leather/bone more effectively, so you will get more materials overall. The table below shows how to get each rank.

Skinning Skill	Rank	Skill Required	Source
Scale Gathering	1	1	Skinning Trainer
Scale Gathering	2	50	Ceremonial Vestments / In Pursuit of Fashion quest from your trainer.
Scale Gathering	3	150	A Thicker Thread / Turtle Soup quest from your trainer.
Leather Gathering	1	1	Learned from your Skinning trainer.
Leather Gathering	2	50	Lost But Not Forgotten / Brinepinch from your Skinning trainer.
Leather Gathering	3	150	Get a Ivory Handled Dagger (Alliance) / Ancient Skinning Knife (Horde) from Skinning beast that drop Coarse Leather.
Bone Gathering	1	1	Learned from your Skinning trainer.
Bone Gathering	2	50	Hexoskeleton / Bone Needle quest from your Skinning trainer.
Bone Gathering	3	150	Loa Fit For A King / Atal'Dazar: An Unbreakable Bone Needle quest from your Skinning trainer.